The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy

"Taking its title from John Keats’s early 19th-century poem, this highly personal melodrama finds Dulac interrogating the archetype of the femme fatale. La belle dame sans merci follows a famous actress who was once seduced and abandoned by a rich man and subsequently resolved to become a “merciless woman,” forever scheming to hurt others (men in particular) in a ruthless yet captivating manner. Dulac challenges the Romantic archetype embodied in Keats’s poem by way of symbolist mise en scène, self-reflexive narration, and her typically associative approach to editing, locating a modern ambiguity within the stereotypical figures of 19th-century art." - Film Society of Lincoln Center

Country:

France

Genre:

Drama,

Romance

Duration:

80 minutes

Year:

1921

Director:

Germaine Dulac

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Company:

D.H.

Cast:

Lola de Sandoval

Irène

Comtesse d'Amaury

Comte Guy d'Amaury

Hubert d'Amaury

Crew:

Director

Cinematography

Story

Adaptation